Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-11-26

BROOKLYN, Nov. l3.-The weekly
publication OF DR.. Talmage's sermons
is beyond parallel. Beside the English.
speaking nations, including Australia
and New Zealand, the sermons are
regularly translated into the languages
of Germany, France, Italy, Denmark,
Norway, Russia and India. The gen.
tlemen having in charge the publica-
ton of these ermon inform US that in
this country, every week, thirteen
million six hundred thousand copies o.
the entire sermon are printed, and
about four million in other lands, max
ing over seventeen million per week.
A similar arrangement is now beng
made for the publication of DR.. Tai
IMAGES Friday evening talks.
The subject Of the sermon to-day was
parental Blunders," and the text was
/ Samuel iv. 10:
ole fell from of the seat backward by the
side Of the gate, IA Bile neck brake, and he
died; for he was an old man and heayy."
DR., Talmage said; This is tue end
of a long story of parental neglect.
Judge Eli was a good man, but he let
his two boys, Hophni and Phinehas, do
as they pleased, and through over
Indulgence they went to ruin. The
blind old Judge, ninety-eight years Of
age, is seated at the gate waiting for
the news of important battle in which
his two soma were at the front. An eX-
pres is coming with tidings from the
battle. This blind nonagcnarlan puts
bis hand behind his ear, and listens,
and cries: What meaneth the noise
Of this tumult?" An excited messen-
ger, all out of breath with the speed,
said TO him: ''Our army is de-
fcated. The sacred chest, called the
ark, is captured, and your sons are
dead on the field" No wonder the
father tainted and expired. The do
mestic tragedy in which these two sons
were the tragedians had finished its
fifth and last act. ''He fell from off the
seat backward by the side of the gate,
and his neck brake, and he died; for he
was an old man and heavy"
Eli had made an awful mistake in re-
gard to his children. The Bible dis
tuctly says: ''His sons made them
selves vile and he restrained them not. ="
Oh, the ten thousand mistakes in
rearing children, mistakes Of parents,
mistakes of teachers in day school and
Sabbath classes, mistakes which we all
make. VIII it not be useful to consid-
er them?
TIE AR N Y THAT WILL CONQUER.
This country is going TO be conquer
ed by a great army, compared with
which that Of Baldwin the First, and
Xerxes, and Alexander, and Grant,
and Lee, all put together, were in num-
bers insignificant. They will capture
all oar pulpits, ~storehouses, factories,
and halls Of legislation, all our ship
ping, all our wealth, and all our hon
ors. They will take possession OF al
autbnr;ty FROM, tho ITnitod Stotac prac-
idency down to the humblest constabu-
lary-of everything between the Allan
tic and Pacific oceans. rney are on
the march now, and they halt neither
day nor night. They Will oon be here
and all the present active popul Ation of
this country must surrender and give
way. / refer to the great army of chill
dren. Whether they shall take posses
sion Of everything for good OF for bad,
depends upon the style of preparation
through which they pass on their way
from the cradle to throne. Cicero ac-
knowlodges he kept in his desk a col
lection of ~prefaces for books, which
prefaces he could at any time attach to
anything he wanted to publish for him
self or others; All all parents and
teachers have all prepared the preface
of every young life under their charge,
and not only the preface, but the appen-
dix, whether the volume be q poem or %
farce. Families, and schools, and leg
islatures are in u day busily engaged
in discussing what is the best mode of
educating children. Before this ques-
ton almost every other dwindles into
insignificance, while dependent upon
its proper solution is the welfare of
governments and ages eternal. Mac
aulay tells of the war which
FREDERICK TEE SECOND
made against Queen Maria Theresa.
And one day she appeared before the
august Diet, wearing mourning for her
father, and held up in her arms before
them Der child, the Archduke. This
so wrought upon the officers and dep
uties Of the people that with half drawn